The average life expectancy for Americans is 79. In the US at least we define “senior citizen” as over 60 (legally and for healthcare), that seems like a reasonable age for elder to start.
As to your question, yes. Even if it was 90% of the population that was 60+. being an elder, senior citizen, a member of the grandparent generation, olds, or whatever you’d like to call them has more to do with the individual’s age than how many of them there are.
is that not how elder should be defined?
The average life expectancy for Americans is 79. In the US at least we define “senior citizen” as over 60 (legally and for healthcare), that seems like a reasonable age for elder to start.
you seriously think that the majority of people should become elders?
Americans over the age of 65 represent less than 20% of the population. The group of people 60 to 64 is 6.5% of the population. That’s not even a quarter of the population.
As to your question, yes. Even if it was 90% of the population that was 60+. being an elder, senior citizen, a member of the grandparent generation, olds, or whatever you’d like to call them has more to do with the individual’s age than how many of them there are.